Word: waldheim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waldheim received 2,343,387 votes, or 49.64 percent, and Steyrer had 2,061,162 votes, or 43.7 percent...
VIENNA, Austria--Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary general who has been dogged by claims he hid his Nazi past, received the most votes in the Austrian presidential elections yesterday but fell just short of the absolute majority necessary to win the post...
...election will be held June 8 between Waldheim, 67, the conservative People's Party candidate, and Kurt Steyrer, the candidate of the socialists who head the governing coalition...
After the results were announced, Waldheim said he expected the controversy over his Nazi past to die down during the next five weeks, "although surely there will be attempts here and there to interfere in the election campaign...
...Waldheim, 68, is running on the conservative Austrian People's Party ticket in the May 4 elections. Last week Party Leader Alois Mock called the W.J.C. "campaign" against Waldheim a "base and improper intervention in Austrian affairs." Former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, himself of Jewish extraction, called the W.J.C.'s actions an "extraordinary infamy," adding that in the election, Austrians "won't allow the Jews abroad to order us about and tell us who should be our President." Indeed, Waldheim's popular standing has improved since the disclosures. A recent poll shows him leading his Socialist opponent...